Liberty and Security - it's not an either/or choice

Jul 31, 2013 2:21:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

My good friend Mac Graham just sent me this article that I think is thoughtful, balanced and provides a very interesting solution for this "Liberty versus Security" problem. (Full ...

U.S. Commercial Banking In Top 10 Riskiest Industries.

Jul 31, 2013 11:58:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Mark Holan at the Tampa Bay Business Journal reported on something remarkable. Commercial Banks are in the #6 slot of the Top 10 Riskiest industries in the U.S. (!) "Industry research ...

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 31

Jul 29, 2013 4:35:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 31

Scam Of The Week: Christian Singles

Jul 28, 2013 1:21:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 3, 30

Jul 23, 2013 9:32:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 30

NSA Surveillance: IT Pro Survey Says What?

Jul 22, 2013 5:00:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Employees the Weakest Link of Cyber Security, Report Finds

Jul 22, 2013 10:31:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Antivirus company Bitdefender reported something important. Here is their blog post of July 17, 2003.

LLoyds: Cyber Risk Rises from 12th to 3rd place In Three Years

Jul 19, 2013 4:13:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

You all know the world famous insurance company LLoyds. What you may not know is that they maintain a list of Top Risks. It's called their Risk Index and it's the result of a survey of ...

Congressional Aides Targeted By Spear-phishing Attacks

Jul 19, 2013 10:05:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Reuters just reported that Congressional aides in the Senate and House of Representatives said on Thursday that they were notified of a potential security risk involving email and other ...

My New Pebble Smartwatch: A Social Engineering Problem

Jul 19, 2013 9:44:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Why help desk employees are a social engineer's favorite target

Jul 18, 2013 9:37:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Steve Rangan over at the The CSO site wrote:

The One Security Technology That Actually Works: Application Control

Jul 16, 2013 4:05:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

July 16, 2013, Roger Grimes wrote an article in InfoWorld that was straight out of my mind. He said: "Antivirus, perimeter defense, and network monitoring are jokes. But whitelisting ...

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 29

Jul 15, 2013 5:35:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 29

Phishing Attack: Your Twitter friend may not really be your friend

Jul 15, 2013 2:03:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

There is a new phishing campaign doing the rounds trying to get your Twitter login credentials. The scam arrives as a direct messages to prospective victims from one of their contacts. ...

7 reasons for security awareness failure

Jul 11, 2013 12:04:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ira Winkler and Samantha Manke just wrote a great article at the CSO site about why security awareness programs fail. They started out with: "There is a great dichotomy in Security ...

CyberheistNews Vol 3, 28

Jul 9, 2013 9:18:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 28

CTO of media company faked-out employees with "phishing" emails

Jul 8, 2013 10:54:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

There is a fascinating article in SC Magazine dated July 3, 2013 which tells the story of Atlantic Media Chief Technology Officer Tom Cochran, who blasted out a simulated phishing email ...

Five Ways Your Employees Can Kill Your Company

Jul 6, 2013 1:17:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

One - Insider Threat: Stealing valuable information for either profit or idealistic motives. Examples: Software developers taking home code for their next job, sales people downloading ...

The Inevitability Of "The Click"

Jul 3, 2013 4:17:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

From the 2013 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Note that i t only takes 20 emails to get one successful click on a phishing attack. Read the story above!

FBI Warns of Spear-Phishing Attacks

Jul 2, 2013 1:17:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Spear-phishing attacks are up, and they are targeting individuals across all industries, according to a new warning issued by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation .

CyberheistNews Vol 3, 27

Jul 1, 2013 3:24:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 27

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Liberty and Security - it's not an either/or choice

U.S. Commercial Banking In Top 10 Riskiest Industries.

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 31

Scam Of The Week: Christian Singles

CyberheistNews Vol 3, 30

NSA Surveillance: IT Pro Survey Says What?

Employees the Weakest Link of Cyber Security, Report Finds

LLoyds: Cyber Risk Rises from 12th to 3rd place In Three Years

Congressional Aides Targeted By Spear-phishing Attacks

My New Pebble Smartwatch: A Social Engineering Problem

Why help desk employees are a social engineer's favorite target

The One Security Technology That Actually Works: Application Control

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 29

Phishing Attack: Your Twitter friend may not really be your friend

7 reasons for security awareness failure

CyberheistNews Vol 3, 28

CTO of media company faked-out employees with "phishing" emails

Five Ways Your Employees Can Kill Your Company

The Inevitability Of "The Click"

FBI Warns of Spear-Phishing Attacks

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